Part of that 100 lbs. must have included his cerebral cortex. In a situation like this -- disparate employers, disparate audiences, disparate constituencies, et al. -- underinclusion of offenders is simply a fact of life, mainly because there's no central decision-maker. I'd love to see offending rap artists stung in this way, just show me how to do it. As it was, this was the lay species of a political meltdown: spitting in the face of ten laudable young women on blatantly racial and/or sexual terms by a member of the establishment, more or less. As things are aligned in the firmament of public discourse in America today, you grab a precedent when you can and hope that by draining the swamp one pail-load at a time you can salvage the expanse for higher use. As for Sharpton and Jackson, the former being in my general area of habitation and thus often on my TV screen, I respect them both. Unlike this situation, as I've sketched, these two men, perhaps mingling an absolutely necessary message of advocacy based on hope in the face of disadvantage with a heavy dose of ego (show me the politician worth his or her salt who doesn't), are "free-reining" politicians, not answerable to private employers, who manage to maintain a critical-mass constituency because of, not despite, their advocacy.
